hlai

Ael had stared at the hlai in mixed fascination and horror as it lay there with insects crawling in and out of the torn places, out of mouth and eyes.

Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

And how I sit here and twitch like a broody hlai, Ael thought.

Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

The same for the blue people and the orange ones and the brown ones and the ones who look like hlai.

My Enemy My Ally Diane Duane 2000

It had gotten into the woods, and there it lay on the leafmold, limp and torn; a hnoiyika had gotten it, torn its breast out and left the hlai there to bleed out its life, as hnoiyikar will.

Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

It had gotten into the woods, and there it lay on the leafmold, limp and torn; a hnoiyika had gotten it, torn its breast out and left the hlai there to bleed out its life, as hnoiyikar will.

My Enemy My Ally Diane Duane 2000

Now she let loose, resurrecting some of the savagely elegant old idioms for incompetence that her father had used on her the day she forgot to fasten one of the gates of the farm, and three hundred of the hlai got out into the croplands.

My Enemy My Ally Diane Duane 2000

And how I sit here and twitch like a broody hlai, Ael thought.

My Enemy My Ally Diane Duane 2000

Ael had stared at the hlai in mixed fascination and horror as it lay there with insects crawling in and out of the torn places, out of mouth and eyes.

My Enemy My Ally Diane Duane 2000

She remembered her father, standing unhappily over one of the hlai that Ael had not been able to catch.

My Enemy My Ally Diane Duane 2000

The same for the blue people and the orange ones and the brown ones and the ones who look like hlai.

Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000